Jason Rantala joined WCCO as a reporter in June 2023. He's a Minnesota native and is thrilled to be telling the stories of those in his hometown. Maria Lisignoli helped launch the Live Desk as the ...

MINNEAPOLIS -- The City of Minneapolis is exploring new approaches to revitalizing downtown, from filing empty storefronts to making the Nicollet Mall a pedestrian-only zone. That's just the tip of ...

Through the past 30-plus years, Bob Greenberg has seen Nicollet Mall change, from the various names of Dayton's department store to the building of Gaviidae Common to the construction — and eventual ...

A new report from the Minneapolis Foundation is continuing the constant reimagining of downtown. Just this past June, a task force Mayor Jacob Frey convened suggested various improvements to Nicollet ...

The Minneapolis Farmers Market, a Thursday fixture on Nicollet Mall since the 1990s, will not return to downtown Minneapolis this summer. Following a pandemic-related hiatus, the market last summer ...

The City of Minneapolis is looking at removing buses from Nicollet Mall. Project leaders tell 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS there are three options on the table to shift routes to nearby streets, and they believe ...

From large bouquets of flowers to tangy containers of pickles, the Nicollet Mall farmers market was an oasis of nature amid the gray industrial backdrop of downtown Minneapolis. But after more than 30 ...

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Tepley launched his real estate career in Chicago but moved back to Minnesota a few years ago to be closer to family. CDT ...

On a good day in downtown Minneapolis, you can hear Nicollet Mall before you can see it. The first notes of "Ghost Riders in the Sky", mixed with snowflakes and carried on the gusty wind, reverberated ...

Former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak twerked with a 7-foot-tall, hot pink pig. But still, the crowds didn’t fill Nicollet Mall ...

MINNEAPOLIS-Macy's Inc. said Wednesday that its landmark downtown Minneapolis store on Nicollet Mall will close for good in late March. The property, the original Dayton's department store, was sold ...